Improvement in wheelbarrows



1. A. GAB-VER.

WITNESSES 1 %V EN TOR ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STAT-Es JOHN A. GARVER,

OF BRYAN, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEELBARROWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.149f7l3 7, dated April I4, 1874; application filed January 24, 1874."

fication, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side View of my wheelbarrow. Fig. 2 is This invention has relation to wheelbarrows f or moving heavy loads, wherein the parts C0111- posing the barrows require to be made very strong, and to be substantially braced. It'consists, mainly, in the use of curved braces or brackets and curved legs, which are halved together and united so as to brace the legs and rails and afford retaining extensions for K the tray, as will be hereinafter explained.

In the annexed drawings, A designates the receiver or tray, and B the bars or rails 011 which the tray is rigidly secured by means of bolts. The rear extensions of the rails B form the handles B of the barrow, and the front extensions form the wheel-arms B O O designate the legs, and D D the braces for these legs. E represents the wheel, which, with the hub g, I shall cast entire. A bolt or axle, a, passes loosely through the hub g and through the ends of the arms B and receives nuts I) b 011 its ends. The nuts I) 1) inside of the arms, and the outside nuts I) I), secure the bolt a ri idly. Secure this bolt in place and tie together the arms, so that they will not spread under the roughest usage. The braces I) and legs (J are arcs of circles, and theya-re halved together, and also halved to the rails B, and firmly secured by bolts. The upper ends at and c of these logs and braces extend above the rails B, and are properly beveled to receive the tray A and afford supports for its front and rear sides of this tray. G represents a cross-piece, which is bolted to the under sides of the rails B, near the front attachments of the braces D, for the purpose of sustaining these rails against spreadin A bar, 0, is

also secured to the lower ends of the legs 0- to prevent them from spreading and to sustain them against lateral strain.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The curved braces D and legs C, combined with the rails I3, and having beveled extensions a and 0 above the rails for receiving, holding, and supporting the tray A, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

J OHN A. GARVEIL.

Witnesses:

SELWYN N. OWEN, CHARLES F. DOUZE. 

